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Lets tax the colonists! We are protecting them from the French so they need to pay us.

The war is too expensive. Where can we get more money?

Stamp Act 1765-1766

This is so unfair for us!

We will protest and boycott British goods!

Taxes! Taxes! Taxes!﻿ Everyone need to pay taxes for the stamps on newspaper, books and papers!

Quartering Act 1765

Why...﻿

We are going to live here.

The French and Indian War was a war between the British and French for the land of Ohio River Valley. This war was expensive, so the British started to impose taxes on colonies.

The Boston Tea Party 1773

We protest the tea party!

Dump the tea!! Dump it! ﻿

The British decided to tax the colonists by the Stamp Act, requiring stamps to be put on all published papers. So the colonists started to protest against the taxes.

First Continental Congress 1774

The intolerable act is so unfair...

American colonists had to house the British soldiers who fought in the war. The colonists refused to follow this law, because they didn't understand why the soldiers had to stay in America.

"Common Sense" 1775-1776

The Boston Tea Party was a protest led by Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act. They believed that the Tea Act was "taxation without representation", so they dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor as protest against the rule.

Delegates from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia in reaction to the Intolerable Acts by the British. The colonists became a team and worked together to oppose the strict British rules.

Let's talk about how to get rid of it.

Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called "Common Sense", which tried to persuade the colonists to fight for American independence. It urged many people to believe in independence.